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No. 509,020. Patented NOV. 21, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E'. DEERING, OE EvANsTON, AND JOHN F. sTEwAED, OF CHICAGO, l ILLINOIS.

SELF-BINDING HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 509,020, dated November 21, 1893.

' Application iiled March 16, 1888. Serial Nol 267,298. (No model.)

To a/Zlwhom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, JAMES E. DEERING, re-

siding at Evanston, and JOHN F. STEWARD,L

residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certainl newand useful Improvementsiin Self-Binding Harvesters, of which the following is a Afull description.

Our invention relates to harvesting and binding machines in which the entire binding mechanism including the deck or table as a whole may be folded over the wheel toward the harvester in order to reduce the width of the same for transportation or storing.

The object of this. invention is to so construct and arrange certain parts of the machine that the folding operation will be very simple and can be readilyaccomplished without necessitating the disconnection of any of: the parts. To this endwe constructour binder in the usual manner with its deck in one rigid continuous length from the inner to the outer edge, and adapted to receive grainas usual directlyfrom the elevator, but we modify the elevator in such manner as to leave an open unobstructed space beneath its overhanging vend between it and the main wheel, and we l connect our binder to the harvester bya horizontalaxis upon which the same sired to fold the binder toward the harvester, the same is moved forward on the said axis and the receiving end of lthe rigid deck is thus permitted to pass down into the open space provided for the purpose between the side of the Wheel and the elevator.

We are aware that binders have been heretofore pivoted and jointed in various ways'to foldupward toward the harvesters on which they were mounted. When their decks are rigid and continuous they are so mounted that it is necessary to swing or lift them bodily to a higher elevation, or, on the other,

moves in a' fore and aft direction so that when it is `cle-- the grain directly from the elevator, and in having the parts so organizedthat this rigid table may pass downward at the grain side of the wheel as the binder is folded.

By the expression a rigid grain table as employed in this specification'. and the claims is meant a table whicha is stiff. or rigid from one edge to the other and which is adapted to receive the grain directly from. the elevator.

Figure l is a front elevationof our improvement, with the binding attachment in its operative position. Fig. 2'is an elevation showing the binding attachment folded. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on theline 3-3 in Fig. 2 looking inthedirection of the arrows. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on the line 41E-4. in Figs. 6 and 7 showing the rear binder-support 'and the sprocket wheel of the binder shaft.

endof a harvester-frame with the binderframe in operativeposition thereon, the binder-deck and other parts beingY omitted. Fig. 7 is an ele vationlookingfrom the stubbleside with-the binder turned or folded grainward from the operativeV position.

In the drawings A, is the master wheel, and the parts B, B,- B, B, are portions of the harvestery frame. The parts B and B2 are the frontand rear elevator frames respectively. C, is the foremost support of the binder and Cthe rearmost support thereof.: These are adapted, as shown in Fig. 7, to support the binder frame, so that it maybe folded upon the same axis as the packer shaft. In order that such may be the case the binder frame D, which from preference'is of the usual U- shaped form,.hasupon the lower parallel of the kframe two suitable lugs, D and D2.A

D isshown in detail in Fig. 5 while D2 is only shownin section in Fig. 3, but as they are identical the rearmost one will be understood. To part D we secure the packer shaft bearing d, and in this wepass the sleeve d'. This sleeve also enters the part of the frame D2, as seen in Fig. 3.v The packer shaft passes through this gas-pipe. rIhe stubble side main wheel axle quadrant E, is extended upward and adapted to clasp the gas-pipe last described. The strut C forms the rearmost IOO Yze

binder support, being properly braced to the harvester frame. Upon its summit is. mounted a .packer shaft bearing. The packer shaft is journaled in this and adapted to slide fore and aft.

F, is an arm secured in the rear of, and to the grainward side of the master wheel, and Supported by means of the bracket F from thestubble side truss frame F2 and having anti-friction roller Fiupon its extremity, as

shown in Fig. 3, adapted to rest beneath thel lowermost tubular part of the binder frame, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

So far as described, this arrangement is shown, described and claimed in the application of Joel H. Pitkin and John F. Steward, filed April 12, 1888, Serial No. 270,503, patented August 13, 1889, No. 409,063, wherein it will be found more in detail. We do not confine ourselves however, to any particular other parts located beneath the said binder table therein.- Heretofore, as far as we are aware, it has been necessary to make the binder table in sections. That portion which is uppermost when in position for receiving grain, being adapted by means of hinges, or otherwise to fold, so that it can be swung upward to avoid contact with the master wheel. This difficulty we avoid by lowering the wheel relative to the binder.

As harvester frames have heretofore been constructed the binding attachment has been supported or sustained whenfolded from the upper portion of the frame work, as for instance, from the top of the elevator frame; this has brought so much strain upon the said frames that it was necessary to extend posts from the upper portion downward to the stubble side of the main frame, in position similar to that of the dotted line m, w, in

Fig. 2.

It will be observed that our binder is mounted upon supports independent of the elevator frame. This is done in order to dispense with these posts, which we ,have referred to. We place the elevator frame supporting post B, so much grainward that the binding table G, shall clear it when the binding attachment is being folded from the position shown in Fig. 1, to that shown in Fig. 2, its arc of movement being shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. In order that the harvester frame may be elevated so high as to have sufficient recess beneath the elevator and over the master wheel, as stated, we have so provided that the wheel may be moved lower, and inorder to so move it the wheel axle is 4provided with a raising and lowering i device, preferably consisting-ola Worm wheel and the screw arrangement shown in Fig. 3,

Y the worm wheel H, being keyedto the axle and the worm H being supported upon a frame surrounding the axle and Vhaving the lugs h and h.

The operation of folding the binder is as follows: The said'binding attachment is moved forward toits farthest extent. The frame is then elevated to its highest position relatlve to the wheel. This operation or the reversal in the order of operation will bring the needle I, and the packers J, to the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3, namely some distance forward of the highest portionof the wheel, yet

much lower thann the highest portion thereot'. 0f coursepif provision were not made for moving the binder far enough forward, these parts Vwould all collide with the mai-n supporting wheel, unless we adapted the wheel to pass In uch lower. We prefer, however, both movementsVthe placement of the elevatorframes and the support B, relative to the axis upon which the binder is folded, and the upward extension of the deck Vbeing such in length that it may pass the parts B and B of the elevator frame without coming in contact therewith. In order that the deck may move with the binder while folded we support it entirely upon the binder, by permitting it to rest upon the lowermost sleeve K, of the binder frame, and extending the bracket' lo, upward from the two portions D and D2 of the binder frame, as shown in Fig. 5, so as to properly control the upper extremity of said table. The upper or receiving end of the grain table stands when in operative position, in the usual relation to the elevator, near enough to receive the grain directly therefrom.

In Fig. 1, we have exaggerated somewhat the intermediate space in order to show more clearly the manner in which the table and the elevator are independently supported.

With the operative parts of the binder in their normal position of rest, and with the binder folded as in Fig. 2, it will be observed that the concentric extension of the needle extends some distance farther stubbleward than any other portion of the folded binder. This may-be closed in by turning the working parts of the binder until the needle occupies the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, when its end will be drawnbin sufficiently far to clear anything beside which the binder "may be passing,-as a tree or post,-that the ends which are formed with hooks or notches,

being engaged one over one of the elevator rolls and the other over the upper arm of the IOC IZO

599,020 o f a binder-frame. Thev weight is carriedV mainly onthe horizontal axle around which the binder folds. Thebar X2 is not claimed herein.

Byreference to Fig. 3 it will be observed that the .binder is moved much farther for-V ward than the support F. This support, of course, is useless when the .Y binder is folded.

It is but necessary to lift the outer portion ofv the binder so high that no depending parts may strike the said support when the binder can vbe at the same time moved forward. An

adjusting device by which the binder may beA moved fore and aftfor central binding from the driving seaty may be used of any of the (disconnecting it entirely well known forms. When such is used it lwill be necessary to giveit range so great Vwheel,in combination with a binder ofthe Appleby type, having a rigid grain table attached thereto, a horizontal axis connecting the binder and harvester -and so located as to permit the binder to fold inward andl project the 'edge of its table beyond the grain side of theV WheeL-and an elevator mounted on the harvester,its upper overhanging end arranged in position to deliver directly to thebinder table,'and its supports located grainward beyond the edge of the binder table when the latter is folded: the binding mechanism being movable in a fore and aft direction wh'erei by the binder is permitted to fold without causing the binder-needle to strike the main wheel, and without having the table encounter the elevator supports;

2. In a harvester the main frame, the main wheel, and the elevator frame located and supported wholly on the grain side of the wheel to leave an open space between the two, in combination with the grain table, su pported on an axis outside of the wheel, and

'movable in a fore-and-aft direction to and from a position partially beyond the elevator, and adapted, when in its forward position, to

be folded in over the wheel into the open 5o space between the latter and the elevator frame.

JAMES E'. DEERING. .JOHN F. STEWARD.-

Witnesses:

KW. D. PORTER, H. WOOD. 

